Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1891 — Forests in Tasmania. [ARTICLE]

Forests in Tasmania.

It makes an Englishman’s mouth water to hear that the crown forests of Tasmania cover over 16,000,00(1 acres. The gum trees, which are most Common in these forests, are of great size, some of them being 107 feet in girth, while there are peppermint trees 330 feet high. The manna tree, the red gum, the cider gum. the weeping gum, tho iron-bark and the blackwood are some of the other useful or ornamental trees of which the lucky Tasmanians possess a virtually unlimited supply. In Keeping With tho Weather. New York’Prees. “I always dress my windows as the ladies dress,” said a merchant, “on sunny days with bright things and on cloudy days with somber colors, and so on.” “Do you sell umbrellas?” “No. “What do you do on rainy days, then?” J “We make a display of stockings.’’